Ammotrecha
picta Pocock 1902
Ammotrecha picta ►Pocock, 1902c:
65, plate 12 figs 9, 9a; Franganillo, 1931: 48 (probable misidentification);
Franganillo, 1936: 154 (probable misidentification); ►Muma, 1976: 26; ►Armas,
1996b: 32; ►Armas, 2004b: 60.
Ammotrecha stolli [sic] Pocock: ►Roewer, 1934: 598 (in part).
HOLOTYPE:
Guatemala:
Muma (1976) reported that the male and female types, which had been
deposited in the British Museum of Natural History, could not be located.
Original
description:
Pocock, 1902c: 65, plate 12 figs 9, 9a:
"♀
Differing from A. stolli [sic] principally in colour; head-plate deep
chocolate-brown, ocular tubercle black, without median pale band; mandibles
infuscate above, with three deeper-coloured dark stripes; abdomen coloured
like that of A. stolli [sic], but the lateral integument adjacent to
the tergal plates paler, hence the dark area of the plates stands out more
boldly as a pair of isolated bands; palpi entirely infuscate, except
the basal half of the femur; first leg lightly infuscate, second, third, and
fourth legs deeply infuscate, with no distinct pale ring around the distal
end of the tibia of the fourth leg. Mandibles with dentition as
in A. stolli [sic]. Length and spine-armature of legs as
in that species.
♂ Resembling the female in colour, and like the male of A. stolli [sic], but
the cylindrical and other bristles on the palpi less numerous.
Measurements in mm. - ♀ Total length 18; width of head 4; length of
palp 12, of fourth leg 14. ♂ Total length 15; width of head 3; length
of palp and of fourth leg 16.
SUBSEQUENT ACCOUNTS:
Armas (1996) stated:
El mecho y la hembra tipos de esta especie,
colectados en Guatemala, debían de estar depositados en el Museo
Británico de Historia Natural, pero no han podido ser localizados (Muma,
1970, 1976). Roewer, 1934 la consideró un sinónimo posterior de
A. stolli, criterio que fue aceplado por Muma (1970, 1976, 1986);
sin embargo, el colorido de esta especie es totalmente diferente al de
A. stolli y más bien se parece al de ciertas especies de
Ammotrechella. Por tal raz
ón,
la incluyo aquí como un taxon válido.
Requiere de una adecuada descripción.
DISTRIBUTION:
Guatemala. Known only from type locality.
PUBLISHED RECORDS: Known only from the type series.
NOTES: Armas (2004) included this species in a list of Central American
solifuges, considering it to be valid.
